Word: backing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believe, to follow our lead-if we would assume the lead. The other night here in Bogotá we saw the newsreels of the Squalus rescue. The audience was simply overcome with admiration . . . and clapped and stamped as the survivors were helped aboard the Falcon. Finally the man in back of me, a Colombian, poked me violently in the back and said fiercely: "There, you ugly German [anybody with blond hair in Bogotá is a German], that's what we of the Americas...
Laborites Lewis and Bittner moved slowly and thoroughly. They did not risk the splits and premature rough stuff that C. I. O. permitted to occur elsewhere. Chicago packinghouse labor lives "back of the yards" in a wide, dismal area of ramshackle homes and crumby tenements. Nearly all now belong to the C. I. O. Nearly all are devout Roman Catholics...
Bishop Sheil realizes that the backbone of his Church is the same lowly worker who is also C. I. O.'s backbone. Lately he became interested in the Back-of-the-Yards Neighborhood Council, organized by Saul Alinsky, University of Chicago sociology graduate who for social research once lived with the Capone gang. The Council is sympathetic to C. I. O. Bishop Sheil has felt pressure from the packers and from A. F. of L., but last week he was on Van Bittner's platform large as life after the strike vote was taken. In fact, he read...
...utility super-holding companies, J. P. Morgan's United Corp. was the biggest and fell the hardest. United now looks back ruefully on its ten checkered years of existence and hopes that it has finished taking its licking. In this connection it announced last week its first step toward quitting business as a utility holding company and setting up as an investment trust. It reported that in the past three months it had invested nearly $2,500,000 in 15 leading common stocks (Chrysler, DuPont, General Electric...
While his fellow writers fled San Francisco to die in obscurity and in exile, found religions in New Jersey swamps, become monks, build roads, brood bitterly over their frustration, Poet Miller went back to the frontier, settled on a pleasant 100-acre Oakland hilltop, where he erected statues of Frémont, Moses, Browning, charmed club women with demonstrations of rainmaking, which consisted of chanting gibberish and turning on a concealed sprinkler on the roof. In general Joaquin Miller's career suggests that of the whole caboodle; he was perhaps the only one who really belonged there...